As a thick grey grime hangs over Bangkok’s skyline, city residents scramble for clean air.
Category: Thailand
One endangered-species marine creature injured or killed by garbage in Thai waters every 68 hours
Over the past year, 129 marine animals from endangered species have been injured or killed by sea garbage in Thai waters.
Declare Bangkok a ‘pollution control zone’
Academics called on the government yesterday to declare the capital a pollution-control zone, so related agencies can enforce stricter legal measures to limit emissions and protect people’s health.
Changes give Thai forest protection centre more authority, ease in identifying encroachers
The national land policy committee made history by allowing for the first time, those with conflicting claims to continue living in the forests without having their claims examined and verified.
Riding the Durian Belt and Road: Risky times for Thai agriculture
As the Chinese dragon whips its tail, must Thai farmers fall in line, or can they gain some traction on their own to shape Thailand’s future agricultural policy?
Bt12m tsunami-warning buoy installed off Phuket coast
Once both buoys are operational, along with the international network of tsunami-warning systems in the Indian and Pacific oceans, Thailand will be able to get tsunami warnings well in time, official
‘Agencies ‘not taking air pollution seriously’
More people killed by pollution than by aids, malaria: world health organisation
Smog serious threat to public health: experts
Authorities must take the air pollution problem in Bangkok seriously and strictly enforce mitigation measures to protect people’s health, academics said, while warning of serious financial costs to match.
Stung by evidence of internal graft, Forest Department launches purge
An arrest warrant was issued for her last August over serious “wood-poaching” offences.
Bangkok Fights Floods with Thirsty Landscaping
“We need to be thinking about everything we build in the context of mitigating climate-change impact.,” says its designer.